Eric Schaezle's Introduction to Multi-Perspectival Relationalist Philosophies

From P2P Foundation
Jump to navigation Jump to search

= Article: Perspectivism. By Eric Schaetzle.

URL = https://pedon.blogspot.com/2021/06/relationalism.html

Very good introduction to the various branches of relational thought, both East and West.


Summary

"This article explores a process-relational understanding of the observer-observed dynamic, which can be seen as a dialogue within and between three dichotomies that often reappear in the course of its application:

  • One-Many (composed of fractal parts, infinite continua, internally differentiating aspects): Every description of the world is from inside, they are all in the first person. ...
  • Independent-Interdependent (contextuality of relations, pathos and ethics, causality, logical connectives, etc.): To say that something is real is to say that it participates in relations with other things. Facts are relative to observers. ...
  • Rest-Motion: (the process and possibility of continuous change, flux, transformation): Everything flows. As a global culture, we have yet to join a relational conception of economics with the expanding circle of empathy through means of a transpersonal perspective. ...


Excerpts